Over the next few years, as time and funding permit, Susan E. Gallagher, the site's project director, plans to work with libraries, historical and educational institutions throughout the country to create similar digital maps to track Thoreau's excursions to Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York/New Jersey, and Vermont. Since the Thoreau Society will be featured in all of these maps, we will provide updates on our progress here. Please check back soon to learn more about travel as an overarching theme in Thoreau's life and works.

"I met a pilgrim travel-worn, who could speak all tongues and conform himself to the customs of all nations, who carried a passport to all countries, and was naturalized in all climes, who had vanquished all the chimeras and caused the Sphinx to go and dash her head against a stone, who never retraced his steps nor returned to his native land, and was reputed to have travelled further than all the travellers. He bore for device on his shield these words only.— Know Thyself,”H.D. Thoreau, "Reform and the Reformers," 1844.